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We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown
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We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon […]

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 2

08/07/2025 By Juan Cole

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

The Verdict of History: How political Calculations betrayed Gaza

08/07/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

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Guantanamo Reading List: Harry Potter, Don Quixote, and Obama’s Dreams from my Father

Guantanamo Reading List: Harry Potter, Don Quixote, and Obama’s Dreams from my Father

Journalist Besan Sheikh recently visited the Guantanamo Bay prison facility run by the US, where al-Qaeda and other prisoners from Bush’s ‘war on terror’ are […]

Juan Cole

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Afghanistan Roiled by NATO Air Strikes that killed almost 100

Afghanistan Roiled by NATO Air Strikes that killed almost 100

Earlier this week, Taliban had hijacked NATO fuel trucks. On late Thursday or early Friday, NATO war planes located and struck at the trucks, after […]

Juan Cole

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The Great Withdrawer: George Will repudiates the Hawks

The Great Withdrawer: George Will repudiates the Hawks

Conservative columnist George Will, having argued earlier this week for a US withdrawal from Afghanistan, today says we should get out of Iraq sooner rather […]

Juan Cole

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60 Said Killed in NATO Bombing; US Aid Monies May support Taliban Activities

60 Said Killed in NATO Bombing; US Aid Monies May support Taliban Activities

Preliminary reports are saying that a NATO airstrike on an oil tanker earlier hijacked by guerrillas set off an enormous explosion as people had gathered […]

Juan Cole

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The Huthi Rebellion in Yemen

The Huthi Rebellion in Yemen

Philip McCrum writes in an guest Op-Ed for IC: The Huthi rebellion kicked off in 2004, when Hussein Badr al-Din al-Huthi proclaimed himself “Amir al-mu’minin” […]

Juan Cole

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Taliban Assassinate Deputy Intelligence Director, Kill 21

Taliban Assassinate Deputy Intelligence Director, Kill 21

A Taliban suicide bomber killed the deputy director of Afghanistan intelligence along with 21 other people in the eastern Laghman province. This sort of successful […]

Juan Cole

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Tohidi: Women and the Presidential Elections: Iran’s New Political Culture

Tohidi: Women and the Presidential Elections: Iran’s New Political Culture

Nayereh Tohidi writes in a guest op-ed for IC: Iranian Women figured prominently in the 10th presidential elections of June 2009, in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad […]

Juan Cole

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Maher interviews Moyers: The Conscience of American Journalism

Maher interviews Moyers: The Conscience of American Journalism

Bill Maher interviews Bill Moyerson Afghanistan: Maher interviews Moyers on health care: End/ (Not Continued)

Juan Cole

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On How all Hell hasn’t Broken out in Iraq and the US Military doesn’t Need to Stay there; or, Damn Lies and Statistics

On How all Hell hasn’t Broken out in Iraq and the US Military doesn’t Need to Stay there; or, Damn Lies and Statistics

One of the major headlines out of Iraq today is the release of non-insurgent casualty figures for August, which are 456, as Agence France Presse […]

Juan Cole

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